Administrative Penalty Procedure in Ecuador

Abstract

This work has the purpose to deepen in the knowledge of the principles and rules on the sanctioning procedure in Ecuador, which results may result in different sanctions from economic ones to professional disqualification, or closure of the establishment. In the Ecuadorian case, with a history of neglect in the development of administrative jurisprudence, and normative chaos, makes of the professional practice, a kind of minefield, where the lack of clarity regards the forbidden behaviors, the process which form the administrative will and the legislative chaos put the citizens in legal insecurity which means a problem for the public administration, the citizens and professionals and for the citizen that waits for medical services.